Music Player Daemon

The Music Player Daemon ( MPD short ) is a Unix system service that allows you to play music on a computer. It differs from ordinary music player programs in that a strict separation of user interface and program core is present. Characterized the user interface replaceable and also remote control of the program via the network possible. The interface between client and server is documented and open the Music Player Daemon himself free and open source software.

Purpose

The MPD can be controlled remotely on the network due to its low resource consumption not only on ordinary desktop computers, but also on a weak calculation capabilities of the network device to be operated with audio output and all computers or mobile phones / PDAs. Also for Raspberry Pi MPD is an appropriate equitable block.

It is also possible to run the daemon and the client to remotely control local to the same computer, it then functions as a normal media player, however, can be controlled from a plurality of different clients, different in surface configuration, and additional functions. There are now numerous clients which use a web interface.

Functions

The MPD plays, among other audio formats Vorbis, FLAC, OggFLAC, MP2, MP3, MP4/AAC, MOD, Musepack, WavPack and wave. Thanks to the optional FFmpeg support many more formats can be played back. In addition, can be played FLAC, OggFLAC, MP3 and Ogg Vorbis HTTP streams. The control interface can also be controlled without manual configuration using the Zeroconf technology. Furthermore, seamless playback, crossfading and reading metadata from ID3 tags, Vorbis comments, or MP4 metadata structure ReplayGain supported.